Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-10-30
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AsrHOsY. Kan, Oct. Is, 1887.

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Az. Editor Posr-INrKLLEsENcKR
DEAR STR-There d Q little contro
Yersy with some Of the readers Of tn,
PosT-lNTKLLI0KNcKR rs to whether Il i
necessary TO irrigate In Washington
Territory or not. WIN you set th.
matter right through the columns D
your paper7
Also, dc peaches do well Ia Western
Washington, and are they reliable
Is there any prairie land, and VIVA
proportion7
DO vegetables Of ali kinds do we'll
and how about raising celery7
What Is the character OF your for
ests2 Is there plenty Of hard wood
and what quality and kindl
These questions are q little varied
bat We have q number Of anxious in
Quirers into the merits OF your country
who have an eye to emigrating.
Waiting 10 hear from you, one 81
your readers, II. H. b.
Now, Il would take q book 10 answer
this mans letter fully, and We know o.
no other or better way than TO send
him one Of our Governors reports
which Is full and complete and obtain,
able Of the Governor Of the Territory
each year. Nevertheless. we feel In.
clined 10 answer Is far as practicable
even Il we do trespass upon the space
assigned 10 farm topics. We know Of
many farmers who want just such
questions IS these answered for inquir.
ing friends.
IL is unnecessary 70 irrigate in West.
ern Washington. East Of the Cascade
range Of mountains, In some districts,
II Is necessary to irrigate; others not,
All, or nearly all. Of the great wheat
crop, with the enormous yield report
ed, even up to sixty bushels per scre,
is without irrigation. That country
could easily produce thirty or forty
million bushels wheat per annum with.
out = drop Of irrigation; yet there are
immense tracts that can only be made
available by irrigation, and, to quote
the words Of one well qualified 70
speak, "is the richest land on earth, y
though it looks in the Wild state as Il
worthless.
Peaches do not do well in Western
Washington. Nobody thinks Of plant
ing out large orchard, yet we do rails,
some Every nice peaches" as th,
phrase goes, and make a good dea
Of fuss over them" In Eastern Wash
ington good peaches are raised in nu
merous localities.
The greater portion Of the prairi'
land Of Western Washington is grav
ely and unit for farming. There ar
some exceptions to this, but such ar
small and widely separated. The pro
portion Of prairie land to the Who'll
area is not more than ene-tsnth, IL on
takes the foothills Of the mountain
into account.
There Is a wide range in values
farm land. IL Is literally true to "a
that farm lands" sell for from g. s
to $3.50 per acre, and almost all price
between these extremes. There is a
difhculty experienced in getting goo
farming or wheat land cheap in Easi
ern Washington; the improved land
Of Western Washington are niue
higher.
4 Vegetables Of nearly all kinds d
twen. II our correspondent was be-
al the creamery farm today, he woul
see "a harvesting carrots yielding evV
three hundred sacks per acre, and sho
horns At that. We are hauling onioi
that certainly are yielding four ha
dred bushels per acre. Tbs sugar be
Is yielding over twenty-five tons p
acre. There are plies OF squash n
hauled in or very small ARIA Of Ian
! The potatoes are yielding a sack 70 4
J rod square. nearly. or about three hu
dred bashels per acre. Five acres
rutahaEAs on this farm. we verify
! IRsve, wFl yield GOO bushels; the
we're planted in June. and are y
: growing APaes. We have bad pe
! . al summer" and nov have plen
: for use. (oct- 2isil IS we write. a
: IotAsrs IN bloom Yes. this Is cmphi
ioally a great vegetable country, a
e /" celery = Is a. hOne here.
al The great body 81 cur forest Is
: lhsnlock and cedar This is % I
! Iaahle lands and foothals Of the nOg
|, sains. In ne valleys. balm Or ootts
{ wood, alder. maple and ash prsdom
I ate IN theordsF named. Of the Or =
= easanr there i en- unlimiked quarts